AFRIN, Syria - Kurds from Afrin in northwest Syria are returning to the city after years of displacement only to face extortion and compounded hardships with their properties in ruins. Two brothers ...

Turkey and the Syrian militia groups it supports took control of Afrin in March 2018 following a military campaign against the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG). The militia groups ...

On Sunday, rumors began to circulate on Kurdish and Arabic media that the YPG had come to an agreement to allow the deployment of Syrian regime forces in Afrin. Afriin is located in a mountainous ...

"I have no information about the current presence of the Syrian army in Afrin," he said. On February 19, Firat News Agency reported that the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) will yield the ...

Afrin was liberated from YPG/PKK and Daesh terrorists in March of last year during Turkey's Operation Olive Branch. "So we supplied [since then] hot meals to a million people; we gave 5 million ...

When asked if Turkiye would still intervene in Syria despite the US support for the YPG, Fidan said: “We did it in the past ...

Asked if Turkey would still intervene in Syria despite the United States' support for the YPG, Fidan said: "We did it in the past in Afrin, in Ras al-Ayn and in Tal Abyad," referring to locations ...

"PKK, YPG, PYD are same; changing names does not change ... military operation against those groups in the Syrian district of Afrin. On Friday, Turkey’s defense authority confirmed the military ...

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